The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) goes into effect in roughly one year and yet many companies are still behind in preparing for compliance. Join this webcast to understand the top priorities and challenges with meeting GDPR requirements, how to assess your organization’s exposure, how to prioritize actions and how to take the first steps toward compliance. Learn how GDPR requirements relate to other Information Governance initiatives such as data minimization, Office 365 migration and application decommissioning – and how colleagues and industry experts are leveraging these initiatives to align budgets and achieve data protection and governance goals.

Companies participating in the energy industry are subject to high levels of scrutiny from various government agencies, and in particular are heavy targets of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Due to this high likelihood of investigations and litigation, companies in the energy sector must ensure that they have preservation processes in place to be ready to respond to investigatory and litigation requests.
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Any business operating across international borders faces increasing complexity in controlling, processing and transferring personal data. With the expansion of privacy regulations across the globe, legal and security departments must be prepared to understand and comply with the full range of regulations that different countries have implemented,

The reliance on technology and connectivity has made cybersecurity a critical business issue. With reports of major breaches surfacing with alarming frequency, Boards and C-Level management are increasingly looking to Legal to implement programs that help the corporation prepare for, and reduce fallout from, inevitable cyber incidents.

Errors caused by a company’s internal employees remains one of the top reasons a cybersecurity breach occurs, which results in significant reputational and economic damage. As corporate counsel takes an increasingly critical role in crisis management for the business, they must be more active in ensuring that their employees are trained in security issues to prevent breaches and prepared to handle and respond to breaches; otherwise, these businesses will face enforcement actions at both the federal and state levels.

Cybercrime Magazine predicts that global ransomware attacks will reach $11.5 billion in 2019. According to Forbes Technology, ransomware attacks will hit a business every 14 seconds by next year—with a new report revealing that 45% of ransomware attacks are in the healthcare sector.1 Ransomware attacks are not only becoming increasingly frequent but also significantly more sophisticated and easier to execute. They are now fully automated, with ransomware toolkits sold on the dark web. In addition, they are often integrated with other exploits to maximize the damage to your network and brand.

The results of the upcoming national midterm elections will resonate far beyond 2018. Please join us for a lively conversation with those who have spent decades in federal government on both sides of the aisle as they discuss these important questions: